Full tensor of gravity gradients contains extremely large amounts of information, which is one of the most important sources for research on recovery seafloor topography and underwater matching navigation. The calculation and accuracy of the full ten...
The hydrodynamics of low-lying riverine floodplains and wetlands play a critical role in hydrology and ecosystem processes. Because small topographic features affect floodplain storage and flow velocity, a hydrodynamic model setup of these regions im...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission being considered by NASA has, as one of its main objectives, to measure ocean topography with centimeter scale accuracy over kilometer scale spatial resolution. This paper investigates the impact...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will be affected by various sources of systematic errors, which are correlated in space and in time. Their amplitude before calibration might be as large as tens of centimeters, i.e., able to domi...
Mesoscale coastal eddies are key components of ocean circulation, mediating the transport of heat, nutrients, and marine debris. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides high-resolution sea surface height data, offering a novel...
The Baltic Sea is an intra-continental marginal sea that is vertically stratified with a strong halocline isolating the saline bottom layer from the brackish surface layer. The surface layer is eutrophic, and abiotic zones lacking oxygen are common i...
The recently deployed Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission for the first time has observed the ocean surface at a spatial resolution of 1 km, thus giving an opportunity to directly monitor submesoscale sea surface height (SSH) variations...
The Ka-Band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument on the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a single-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometer tasked with, among others, measuring ocean topography to within a few centimet...
The SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) mission will provide high-resolution and two-dimensional measurements of sea surface height (SSH). However, despite its unprecedented precision, SWOT’s Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) still exhibit...
The proposed surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) mission aims at observing short scale ocean topography with an unprecedented resolution and accuracy. Its main proposed sensor is a radar interferometer, so a major source of topography error is...
The mission of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) is scheduled to be launched in 2022, and global ocean eddies with radius scales of larger than 10 km are expected to be observed from space. However, there are still open questions about the ca...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission is a next generation satellite mission expected to provide a 2 km-resolution observation of the sea surface height (SSH) on a two-dimensional swath. Processing SWOT data will be challenging becaus...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides unprecedented high-resolution observations of sea-surface height. However, their direct use in ocean circulation studies is complicated by the presence of small-scale unbalanced motion si...
The proposed Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission aims to improve spaceborne estimates of river discharge through its measurements of water surface elevation, river width and slope. SWOT, however, will not observe baseflow depth, which l...
Utilizing a high-resolution (2-km) coastal ocean model output off Eastern Newfoundland, this paper explores the potential for reconstructing the sea surface height (SSH) and the surface inshore Labrador Current from high-resolution SSH data of the up...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, launched in December 2022, aims to address the crucial environmental goal of water monitoring to support preparedness for extreme events and facilitate adaptation to climate change on global and...
Traditional methods for the construction of intertidal digital elevation models (DEMs) require the integration of long-term multi-sensor datasets and struggle to capture the spatiotemporal variation caused by ocean dynamics. The SWOT (surface water a...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission was launched on 16 December 2022 to measure water levels over both open ocean and inland waters. To achieve these objectives, the SWOT Payload contains an innovative Ka-band radar interferometer,...
AirSWOT is an airborne Ka-band synthetic aperture radar, capable of mapping water surface elevation (WSE) and water surface slope (WSS) using single-pass interferometry. AirSWOT was designed as a calibration and validation instrument for the forthcom...
The upcoming technology of wide-swath altimetry from space will deliver a large volume of data on the ocean surface at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution. These data are contaminated by errors caused by the uncertainties in the geometry and orie...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) space mission will map surface area and water level changes in lakes at the global scale. Such new data are of great interest to better understand and model lake dynamics as well as to improve water manag...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, expected to launch in 2022, will enable near global river discharge estimation from surface water extents and elevations. However, SWOT’s orbit specifications provide non-uniform...
Surface water is the primary freshwater supply for Earth. Small lakes and ponds provide important ecological and economic services to society but are often left undocumented, or their documentation is outdated, due to their small sizes and temporal d...
While many studies have been conducted regarding wind-driven Ka-band scattering on the ocean and sea surfaces, few have identified the impacts of Ka-band scattering on small inland water bodies, and fewer have identified the influence of wind on cohe...
In the near future, the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will provide images of altimetric data at kilometric resolution. This unprecedented 2-dimensional data structure will allow the estimation of geostrophy-related quantities that are...
Flow–duration curves (FDCs) provide a compact view of the historical variability of river flows, reflecting climate conditions and the main hydrologic features of river basins. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission wil...
The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) mission, to be launched in 2021, will provide water surface elevations, slopes, and river width measurements for rivers wider than 100 m. In this study, synthetic SWOT data are assimilated in a regional h...
River discharge monitoring is an important component of the hydrology objectives of Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT). River discharge can be estimated Solely using river widths and At Many-stations Hydraulic Geometry (AMHG), but the...
Wide-swath satellite altimetry from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides an unprecedented opportunity to directly observe kilometer-scale ocean dynamics in two dimensions. In this study, we identify an atypical bimodal seaso...
Recent advancements in satellite Earth observation (EO) technology have significantly improved the accuracy and density of data available for monitoring rivers and streams, as well as for diagnosing errors in hydraulic models. Laser and radar altimet...
The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will measure rivers wider than 50–100 m using a 21-day orbit, providing river reach derived discharges that can inform applications like flood forecasting and large-scale hydrologic model...
Surface water storage (SWS), the amount of freshwater stored in rivers/wetlands/floodplains/lakes, and its variations are key components of the water cycle and land surface hydrology, with strong feedback and linkages with climate variability. They a...
Remote sensing data are essential for monitoring the Earth’s surface waters, especially since the amount of publicly available in-situ data is declining. Satellite altimetry provides valuable information on the water levels and variations of la...
A flow duration curve (FDC) provides a comprehensive description of the hydrological regime of a catchment and its knowledge is fundamental for many water-related applications (e.g., water management and supply, human and irrigation purposes, etc.)....
The ODYSEA (Ocean DYnamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere) mission will provide simultaneous two-dimensional measurements of currents and winds for the first time. According to the ODYSEA radar concept, with a high incidence angle, current...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been successfully used to map wetland’s inundation extents and types of vegetation based on the fact that the SAR backscatter signal from the wetland is mainly controlled by the wetland vegetation type and water lev...
Mesoscale eddies play a key role in oceanic transport, yet their characterization in marginal seas like the Gulf of California remains challenging due to complex coastlines and bathymetry that hinder conventional detection methods. This study address...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-equipped buoys have a fundamental role in the validation of satellite altimetry. Requirements to validate next generation altimeter missions are demanding and call for a greater understanding of the systemati...
Over the last few years, a very active field of research has aimed at exploring new data-driven and learning-based methodologies to propose computationally efficient strategies able to benefit from the large amount of observational remote sensing and...
The 1-day fast-sampling orbit phase of the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission provides a unique opportunity to analyze high-frequency sea-state variability and its implications for altimeter sea state bias (SSB) model development...
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, jointly developed by NASA and several international collaboration agencies, aims to achieve high-resolution two-dimensional observations of global surface water. Equipped with the advan...
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies enable high-precision positioning with flexible data communication, making real-time/near-real-time monitoring more economical and efficient. In...
Water resource management has faced challenges in recent decades due to limited in situ observations and the limitations of hydrodynamic modeling. Data assimilation techniques have been proposed to improve hydrodynamic model outputs of local rivers (...